For over 70 years, the Corvette has always reflected and transcended its era in design and engineering. Here’s how and why America’s Plastic Fantastic sports car has remained relevant for eight decades.
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Will winter weather ever arrive? Have we already entered a permanent winter, politically? Is my heart frozen and un-thawable? If so, how should I drive? Or should I just give up and stay home and keep drinking?
There are few certainties in life. But if you own a 1988 or ’89 Buick Reatta, one thing is assured: It’s dash-mounted touchscreen–one of the first installed in a passenger vehicle–will break.
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Today, in a meta-Möbius comic strip of brand extension retailing, you can buy a Tumbler from a Wayne Enterprises website set up by Warner Brothers. For $3 million.
A new series from “Recess Therapy” creator Julian Shapiro-Barnum explores whether the inverse of Those Who Can’t Do, Teach is true using star actors, musicians, and athletes as substitute teachers in NYC elementary schools.
After driving the SE on a private off-road course and through the rural and coastal public roads of Puglia, Italy, we can say with certainty that the new $275,000 (estimated price), 789 hp truckster successfully accomplishes its mission—though we’re not sure that is always a good thing.
Concept cars are generally the evanescent dreams of designers. But, every so often, the bean-counters take a handful of edibles, and some marketing person discovers a emergent psychographic niche of buyers that they believe would be willing to pay a premium for something distinctive, and these fantasy vehicles are turned into something consumers can buy and drive on public roads. Huzzah!
The history of architectural imagery, according to Demeulmeester, is replete with “designers who understood that combining cars with their buildings makes the image more dynamic and strong.”
How to cast cars for a movie set in the 1950s, rumored to be about a professional ping-pong player (?!?), and starring Timothee Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Tyler the Creator, and, even more unlikely, New York City masquerading as Paris.
Witold Rybczynski has owned 15 cars in his life, and all of them make an appearance in “The Driving Machine: A Design History of the Car” (Norton, $29.99). In fact, the book is something of a paean to the famed design and architecture writer’s vehicles, which tended toward the utilitarian.